Never put your email address on a public forum... unless you want to flooded with spam.
Doing so just makes it easier for spam bots to harvest it... and those who run such crawlers, make a profit selling your email address to spammers.

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Aye. That is done in lots of other forums, but unless it's an "agony aunt" sort of forum, it's not useful, especially in a technical support forum. (Well, some forums are not productive at all… but that's a different issue.)

I have had people use the contact form on my blog to thank me for forum advice (smiley face), and others who have used the contact form to rant at me because they did not like (or understand) the advise I've given (not smiley face).

And some who ask further questions after an answer I have provided in the forums here. I've done so happily, but that issue has begun to catch my attention. I learned so much from you (and others) by reading the forums when I started, so I think that the current new people do learn here, too.

Not sure where I'm going with my thoughts here, but might be worth a discussion. your blog, my blog, devblog, panos and so on?